At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardment.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as the sick and elderly, condemning the “continued use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urging the international community to exert pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow in aid.
I genuinely don’t know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don’t help if the food isn’t getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.
Go to demonstrations, boycott, speak up about Palestine, message your representatives, vote only for politicians that condemns Israels attacks and have a credible policy of supporting Palestinian rights.
As for donations there is organizations that try to get Israeli war criminals prosecuted and challenge governments in court to stop arming Israel. See two examples below.
Pressure your local government to act against Israel’s genocide through sanctions and military support for Palestine. Write your representatives, turn out to protests, help your local political party that aligns with your goals.
There’s nothing the average citizen can do. “The Powers That Be” will protect Israel at any cost, because Israel is a military beachhead in the Middle East for any potential military action against “The Muzlimz.”
This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.
This is what you want you to feel. Zionism in its core is a project for genocide. They want you to feel helpless. Read their history, educate yourself and your family. Fight for your political rights, boycott for the best of your ability. Share the news.
If you have time, join the protest but make sure to cover your face and dont take your phone.
Israel starving people to death is evil. Some day you will be repaid for this.
Some day you will be repaid for this.
Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse. Just remember: many of the people who claim to care, don’t. And if you actually want to stop this, it needs to start with putting people in power who actually care about stopping it. If there isn’t one in the general, that means this didn’t happen during the primaries.
Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse.
Don’t worry, when the American mid-term elections start next year Palestine will be relevant again.
Republican’s will be gleefully listing off the next minorities they are sending to Freedom Camp in El Salvador. While Democrats are bombarded with endless purity tests and FUD so the Republican candidates can win.
An easy solution would be for the Democrats to condemn the GENOCIDE (its a bit more then a purity test) and break ties with Israel.
They lost because they put the interests of a foreign nation above their own constituents, I hope they have better sense then to do it a second time.
The Republicans won because some voters put the interests of a foreign nation above their own country and now the genocide is coming home.
I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.
Israel still wants to exterminate Palestinians so that they can fully expand into the area.
Hamas wants Israel to fuck off out of Palestine. Depending on how extreme the individual person, they may also want Israel gone entirely, or the same to all Jews. But that’s not the position of most Palestinians.
(The genocide is not the position of most Israelis, either, but enough are okay with it happening.)
It’s simpler that that: profit.
Israel will cleanse the area to make it safe and profitable for land developers. Casinos, hotels, golf courses, etc.
Trump openly stated it.
This framing kind of sucks, but it’s close.
It’s still a land grab, and they’re actively grabbing land in the west bank, in Lebanon, and in Syria.
They’re fascists that have purposefully fomented this violence as the apartheid state. They want the land and some justification they can wave around. This is why Oct 7th exists.
The irony is, the more successful they are in their depraved violence and theft, the more they will become a pariah globally. I can’t see the future, but this feels like a fascist death spiral that will end Israel.
I understand.
It’s the same human drama that’s been played out since the dawn of time. The powerful dominated the weak, and helpless.
We deserve our extinction when our sun goes red giant, but it’ll happen much sooner than that.
We’re an irredeemable species.
Palestinians want to be left alone, and Israel wants them all dead because Israel decided the land belongs to them.
If Palestinians wanted to be left alone then why did they do the terriorst attack and why do they still have hostages?
The terrorist attack wasn’t perpetrated by the Palestinian state. That’s like saying that all Americans agree with the Proud Boys because they happened to be US citizens.
I can’t believe how radical those Hamas terrorists are. They rather watch their own people starve to death than releasing the rest of the hostages. Whatever your thoughts and believes about this whole confict are: It is absolutely clear that Israel will not stop at anything to kill the terrorists before all the hostages are released.
Both sides are fucking retarded. Literally killing and starving each other over god damn religion. Fucking pisses me off that they’re willing to murder each other over a god that doesn’t even exist.
God damn idiots, the lot of them. The country needs to go on a collective acid trip and calm the fuck down.
can we please ban aljazeera links?
Why?
Is it not true that people are dying of starvation on Gaza?
